[j-nsp] EX Series issue

[Sven Juergensen (KielNET)]

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Hi list,

this I had previously discussed, but I'd
like to warm it up once again.

Tonight, I wanted to migrate from an old
HP Procurve to an EX4200-48T. The config
was basically mirrored. Configured were
a bunch of access (untagged) ports and a
l3-interface on the corresponding VLAN.

The VLAN-assignment was done at the VLAN-
context instead of the interface context.
After plugging in a host to an untagged
port (or any port belonging to that VLAN),
neither the switch, nor the connected
hosts could ping each other or forward
any traffic.

The links were physically up but nothing
happened on the MAC/ARP table for the
relevant ports either (mind you, the trunk
functionality worked, just untagged ports
were a no go). After playing around with
the configuration (e.g. assigning the VLAN
on the interface level, removing the config
stanzas and redoing them, plugging into
different ports), I went and rebooted the
switch et voila, it worked... (This was
FreeBSD-based and not some undercover
Windows operating system, right? :P )

I consider this basic functionality with
no bells and whistles, so either I mis-
configured something or happened to find
something flaky once again.

So, did this happen to anyone else, am I
too dense or do you need to reboot every
new switch once after plugging things in? ;)

rant
Opening a case with JTAC will probably end
in something like shrugging on the World
Class Support (tm) part again
/rant
so some experiences from the field would be
appreciated.

Thanks for any input.

Best regards,

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

i. A. Sven Juergensen

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